I got together with a good friend of mine that recently just came back from volunteering overseas for a couple years with the Peace Corps. We had dinner together and caught up a little bit. We were talking about how different our lives are. I’m relatively settled and she’s not at all. Either of our situations are not bad, just different. She asked me what it was like to be in this stage of life (married and settled) and if it was weird. She’s going back to grad school for another degree so our lives are very different right now.  Continue reading →

This is what my posts (and your posts) could look like if SOPA is implemented (a whole lot of black and nothingness). Don’t know what SOPA is? Check it out here! (Highlight the rest of this entry to see what my blog posts could still look like without SOPA.)

There’s been a lot of buzz about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA is basically censorship without due process. If someone thinks that you are possibly pirating an image, video, music, etc., your online life could be shutdown without warning. Search engine companies could be forced to censor the searches that you’re able to do Piracy sucks. We’ve seen some of the effects of it here on Xanga. People get really upset when someone’s posts or pictures get stolen and rightfully so but I’d rather take the routes that we have now (i.e. reporting possible piracy or stealing) than having the craziness that is SOPA. Orwellian in the first degree…

So what can you do? Email or call your representative. Sign a petition. Make your voice heard. I don’t have a senator because I’m in DC but I have contacted my representative and I’ve signed Google’s petition. Make your voice heard!!!

Another thing that I’ve been doing since not being on Xanga is watching lots and lots of the GOP debates. I can’t say that I’m really excited about any of the candidates…. sigh.

I watched the debate on Saturday and I think I figured out what bothers me about all of the candidates and the election race in general: They aren’t talking about real issues!!! With everything that is going on in this country, I’m not sure standing one way or another on a social issue is going to have any bearing on building our economy back up or job creation. I would argue that those two issues are two of the most pressing and most difficult issues that face our country right now. I’d love to see just one of these candidates come up with a real, tangible plan for fixing some of the ills that our country faces.

 With me, it’s political…

If someone would come up with a good plan (or even an interesting plan. At this point, I’ll take an interesting plan), I’d be all ears. But it’s just all noise. I guess I keep watching the debates just hoping that someone says something to intrigue me or light a fire (or perhaps its because the debates have rivaled SNL in hilarity). Eh, gotta find your something, no?

Have you watched any of the debates? What do you think?

So the other day for whatever reason, I started thinking about Xanga. I’m friends with a lot of Xangans on Facebook so I see everyone’s posts as well as the posts in the Xangaville group. It really made me sort of miss this place. Okay and I started thinking about all of my various political rants here in this space and I miss having that outlet. So maybe I’m back…

So what have I been up to since the last time I posted? The answer is not too much. Lots of work. Lots of play. Lots of enjoying just living in our Nation’s Capital. It still sort of blows my mind that I live so close to all of this stuff. I love it down here. I definitely can’t do it forever but for right now, it’s good for the Architect and I. It’s funny; I feel like we used to see a lot more of DC when we didn’t live in the city. Now that we live in the city, we stay in our neighborhood or the neighborhoods just to the north and south of us. There’s so many things to do right here that we don’t feel like we need to leave that cocoon.

Living down here has also made me feel a lot busier than I used to be. It’s like you can’t get away from the pulse of the city. I think feeling overwhelmed is part of the reason that I’ve been scarce on Xanga.

Anyhow, I’m anxious to catch up with you all! Tell me the best thing that’s happened to you in the past week!